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JonH


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Lambda wrote:

To be fair, although Kate does play as an American, she does get described as a freshman from England. Her family still lives in London and her dad owns a business here. I think she is a dual-national but not 100% sure on that.

I was surprised you said she played at No 5. Texas must be down to the bare bones. Ill have to check where Texas have submitted her in the line up when theyre available again but I don't think she's in the first 6 singles line-up in a fully fit Texas and she only played doubles for the first time for Texas this weekend.

 Something was on my X feed about her win on 3 sets to secure the match win, saying she played at 5



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I have question. Why are so many uni matches unfinished ?

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Chris wrote:

I have question. Why are so many uni matches unfinished ?

The format is 3 doubles matches of 1 set each played simultaneously. When one team has won 2 of those sets the third is abandoned if still in play. The team that gets 2 doubles sets gets 1 team point.
They then play 6 singles matches simultaneously each one worth 1 team point. When a team gets 4 team points, including the doubles point if they won it, then all remaining matches in play are stopped.
In non-tournament play the 2 head coaches can agree to play the remaining matches to a finish if they want to but not in NCAAs.

It's basically that they're playing for the team, not themselves.

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Abigail Wild has her first head coach job, being named as Head Coach of New Mexico State women's tennis.

She has been assistant coach at Tarleton State since graduating a couple of years ago where she helped the team to their first NCAA qualification ever this year.

https://nmstatesports.com/news/2026/5/4/womens-tennis-nm-state-announces-abigail-wild-as-head-coach-of-womens-tennis-program.aspx

I know not a name many will recognise but always worth celebrating a first, and I'm interested in Brits in coaching jobs as well as the players.

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Thank you Lambda

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Coup Droit wrote:
JonH wrote:
JonH wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

Kate Mansfield is American though

 I know - I thought she had British connections from previous coverage here though so thought id just mention it. I could be wrong as I genuinely have no idea, just seen her name appear in comments on this forum quite often? 

sorry if that is completely off beam! 

 Its possible Im thinking of a player called Garland instead, so probably completely off track and in which case i apologise! 

 No, Jon, you're right - for both 

Kate Mansfield (and brother - Nathan, I think) were based in the UK, and played a lot here

But always played for the US (I remember meeting Dad, I think he's American, from recollection, not sure about Mum)

Now Kate is at college there, which makes sense

So, definitely UK connections, but has to be prefaced with 'she's American'

 

Joanna Garland is the player with a British dad, who also played a lot in the UK, but has always played for Taiwan (her mum's nationality, I believe)

So correct there too re Brit connections 

 I guess it's still possible Kate might switch after college but i'm sure Joanna never will even though she's from Stevenage.



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10 men and 7 women from GB in the teams in the Sweet Sixteen, so a decent number to follow at the next stage.

Good luck to all 17 of them!

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Streaming and live scores links for the L16 this weekend
Men
Women

And partly good news that the men's semis and final will be streamed on Disney+ next weekend. Nothing showing for the quarter finals or women though. Hopefully they're not going to be sexist. Thanks to Dodrade for highlighting that earlier, I would never have thought to look there.

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Defending champions Wake Forest and Ohio State for them and NC State for the women book their place at the finals site.

Men
Wake Forest (1) d. UCF (16) 4-1
3. Pow/Shah (WFU) def. Abderrahman/Lemire (UCF) 6-0
3. #28 Luca Pow (WFU) def. Pedro Rodrigues (UCF) 6-2, 6-3
4. Charlie Robertson (WFU) vs. Paul Colin (UCF) 7-5, 1-4, unfinished
Luca gets his 93rd doubles win and 98th singles win.

Ohio State (3) d. Illinois 4-0
3. #44 Alexander Bernard/Alex Okonkwo (OSU) def. David Bakonyi/Zachary Viiala (ILL) 6-2

South Carolina (13) lost to Virginia 1-4
3. Stiles Brockett/Keegan Rice (UVA) def. Charlie Swaine/Gabe Avram (SC) 6-3

San Diego are on their way out losing 0-3 to Texas with Ollie Tarvet getting their only set so far.
Baylor are leading 3-2

Women
NC State (8) d. Texas (9) 4-2
2. Conway, Jasmine/Zyryanova, Anna (NCSU) lost to Carmen Herea /Christasha McNeil (Tex) 5-7
6. Jasmine Conway (NCSU) lost to Kate Mansfield (Tex) 3-6 4-6
A comeback win for NC State after surprisingly losing the doubles point and going behind early in 4 singles 1st sets. Jasmine will be disappointed to lose to Texas's No 8, a freshman from London, England, particularly after being 4-1 up in the 2nd. The tie was won by Tori Osuigwe who needed 8 match points in 3 games against Elizabeth Ionescu to get the win. Very good match by these 2 American freshmen.

USC (13) lost to Texas A&M 1-5
2. #35 Violeta Martinez/Ilinca Amariei (TAMU) vs. Emma Charney/Immi Haddad (USC) 5-5, unfinished
Immi was pulled from the singles line-up at No 3 after doubles, presumably for strategic reasons that didn't work.



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Ollie T wins his last college match defeating Seb Gorzny 6-4 6-3

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Good win for Ollie to cap his time in college. Gorzny is #3 in college rankings.



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Howdie, royalmail, and welcome

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Ohio State women join their men in the last 8 and LSU upset Virginia. TCU men win easily.

Women
Ohio State (3) def. Vanderbilt (14) 4-1
1. #23 Flora Johnson/Luciana Perry (OSU) def. #7 Mohr/Webster [Vanderbilt] 6-3
2. #34 Teah Chavez/Hephzibah Oluwadare (OSU) vs. #15 Ray/Stammel [Vanderbilt] 4-3, unfinished
3. Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev/Audrey Spencer (OSU) def. Erin Pearce/Yamakita [Vanderbilt] 6-1

5. #123 Audrey Spencer (OSU) vs Erin Pearce (Vanderbilt) 2-6, 7-5, 3-1, unfinished
6. Sophia Webster (Vanderbilt) def. Hephzibah Oluwadare (OSU) 7-5 6-4

LSU (10) upset Virginia (7) 4-1
2. #17 Kenna Erickson/Ella McDonald (LSU) def. #25 Annabelle Xu/Martina Genis Salas (VA) 7-5
3. Carolina Kuhl/Addison Lanton (LSU) def. Katie Rolls/Isabelle Lacy (VA) 7-5
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3. #77 Ella McDonald (LSU) def. #84 Katie Rolls (VA) 7-5, 6-1
4. #96 Addison Lanton (LSU) def. #119 Isabelle Lacy (VA) 6-4, 6-3

Men
TCU (6) def. Stanford 4-0
3. Oliver Bonding/Maximus Dussault (TCU) unf. Alex Chang/Jagger Leach (Stan) 5-4
4. Oliver Bonding (TCU) def. #81 Hudson Rivera (STAN) 6-1 6-1

Georgia (12) lost to Mississippi State (5) 1-4
2. Niccolo Baroni/Ma Martinez Serrano (MSU) def. Will Jansen/ Gabriele Vulpitta (UGA): 6-4
3. Bryan Hernandez Cortes/Petar Jovanovic (MSU) def. Derrick Chen/Noah Johnston (UGA): 6-2
2. #36 Will Jansen (UGA) def. #13 Petar Jovanovic (MSU): 6-4, 6-4
5. Raphael Vaksmann (MSU) def. Derrick Chen (UGA): 6-4, 6-2

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Women last 8
Georgia (1) v NC State (8) [Conway]
North Carolina (5) v Texas A&M (4)

Ohio State (3) [Oluwadare, Johnson] v Pepperdine (11)
LSU (10) [Mcdonald] v Auburn (2)

Men last 8
Wake Forest (1) [Pow, Robertson] v Arizona (8)
Mississippi State (5) v Virginia (4)

Ohio State (3) [ Okonkwo] v TCU (6) [Bonding]
Baylor (10) [Koenig, Bowden] v Texas (2)

Men QF on Thursday, Women on Friday
SFs on Saturday
Final on Sunday

-- Edited by Lambda on Sunday 10th of May 2026 07:16:06 AM

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Lambda wrote:

By my records we have 32 men and 19 women on teams that have qualified for the NCAAs. This does not mean they will all play - some are injured and some are not in consideration for the line-up.

Roll call - Men
Wake Forest - Luca Pow, Charlie Robertson
Old Dominion - Zechariah Hamrouni
Florida - Henry Jefferson
South Carolina State - Gabriel Johnson
Samford - Sebastian Harrison
Elon - Jack Curtis, Nicholas Fisk
Georgia - Will Jensen, Derrick Chen
South Carolina - Charlie Swaine
UNC Chapel Hill - Roan Jones, Ant Wright, Sergiy Rafiee
St Johns - Adam Groves, Simon Hegarty
San Diego - Ollie Tarvet
Baylor - Louis Bowden, Luc Koenig
Santa Clara - Ferran Redza, Luca Bluett
Auburn - Billy Blaydes, Freddy Blaydes
TCU - Oli Bonding
Denver - Raffaello Papajcik, Theo Coats, Joshua Ashton
Penn - Matt Rutter
Vanderbilt - Hugo Coquelin
Notre Dame - Kyran Magimay
Kentucky - Matt Rankin
Ohio State - Alex Okonkwo

Roll call women
Virginia - Isa Lacy
Stephen F Austin - Jemma Cave
LSU - Ella McDonald
Miami, Fl - Jaqui Ogunwale
North Florida - Aryana Bartlett
Utah - Kamea Medora
USC - Immi Haddad
Illinois State - Sophie Marie Lowe
Florida - Gabia Paskauskas, Brooke Black
South Carolina - Dani Piani (not playing)
NC State - Jasmine Conway
UCF - Hannah Rylatt (injured)
Ohio State - Hep Oluwadare, Flora Johnson
Arizona - Ciara Moore
Clemson - Talia Neilsen-Gatenby
Vanderbilt - Erin Pearce
UC Santa Barbara - Isabella Wong

 so, looks like 6 men and 4 women from the Brits above will make it to next weekends finals, look forward to it. 



-- Edited by JonH on Saturday 9th of May 2026 08:53:59 PM

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